The cover of the October 2018 edition of Cosmopolitan UK features Laurel native Tess Holliday.

Phew, I’m literally a COSMO GIRL!! Can’t believe I’m saying that! 😭😭Thank you @CosmopolitanUK for this incredible opportunity 🙏🏻 If I saw a body like mine on this magazine when I was a young girl, it would have changed my life 💕 Issue hits stands 8/31! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 pic.twitter.com/sBYWY7nEwZ

"I remember very vividly driving in the car with Bowie (her 2-year-old son) and I thought to myself, 'I wish I could just disappear. I wish I could vanish.' It felt at that point like I was causing everyone around me so much pain. It felt like a never-ending black hole. I was so tired of hurting … I just didn’t want to be here any more," Holliday told the magazine.

Now, she told the magazine, "I’m at the heaviest I’ve ever been in my life now and it took me being the heaviest to finally love myself."